The game's closed beta is scheduled on September 4, but will only be opened for servers in Thailand. No details on an international release have been disclosed so far.

On a personal note, I find this concept ridiculous; even more so because their original voice actors are not reprising their roles for this game.

Meanwhile, in another MOBA-related news, as KOF tries to cross over into the real-time strategy game genre, League of Legends will do the opposite and venture into the fighting game genre with League of Fighters.

Riot Games approves "League of Fighters"

Because League of Fighters is being independently developed by the volunteer team Instaburst, there were worries that the project might get shut down by Riot Games, the company behind LoL, due to intellectual property issues. Riot had already reviewed the project and saw that it falls within the legal boundries of their policies. They had this to say to Instaburst after the evaluation:

We’ll start with our golden rule – you can use League of Legends IP as the basis for a fan project that you’re giving away for free or that’s only generating ad revenue (we’ll refer to this type of free fan project as a “Project”), as long as you comply with the guidelines outlined below for using our IP (the “Guidelines”). As a matter of fact, as long as you comply with our Guidelines, we think it’s great if you create awesome, free and original content for League of Legends fans.

With that, Riot essentially told the team that the LoF project can push through.

With the worries cast aside, Team Instaburst continues to look for volunteers to help complete the game for it to be launched at the soonest time possible.Sources: Shoryuken.com, MMO Culture, Instaburst